The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1887-05-05

pound cans, 10c.; blue plums, 2 pound
cans, &c. SCHUETTE Bros.
IT is said the city is liable for damages
resulting from runaways caused by paper
thrown in the street. If this be true
Manitowoc must have come near losing
itself wholly on damages last Monday.
WE have now in stock line of fine
TURCoMAN or PoRTIERE CURTAINS. We
have also a good assortment of Tapes
TRIES, REP GOODS and heavy plushes for
upholstery purposes. SCHUETTE Bros.
THE Coal Trade Journal published IN
New York, says the Hooking Valley
/ Company proposes to make Manitowoc
/ its central point for shipping coal into
! Michigan" Probably Minnesota is meant
The wind on Monday hurled missiles
| through the air and often through win
dows. Charles Book had the windows
Of his residence broken by material car
ried from the roofs of adjoining buildings
/ IT Is said that the eastern parties who
| have secured the contracts for carrying
mail in this section will be compelled to
execute the contracts themselves, as they
have been unable thus far to sub-let
! them.
The wife of Fred Carus, formerly Of
this city, died at Amigo on Tuesday of
last week. a little child of his is quite
seriously sick and he is just recovering
! from a very serious attack OF inhamma-
! tory rheumatism.
SUPT. MORRISON Of the Farmers Insti-
tute Will issue 10000 copies of the pro-
ceedings of the institute held in Green
! Bay, as he considered that the best held
in the state. He wants every farmer in
the state to be supplied with one.
SHEBoYGAN, as well as Two Rivers, is
| afflicted with the anonymous letter writ
| er. He manages to come in possession
! Of something Of an unsavOry nature con-
| corning some ladies and then puts them
| to torture by writing to them of it.
| MOsT of our cheap CARPETS are now in
and you can select from our stock as
handsome patterns in our soc. and 60c.
grades as you would wish to see. OF
course they are not all wool.
5 SCHUETTE Bros.
TIE City Guard Fair at Sheboygan
devoted an evening to balloting for the
most popular young lady and the most
popular man in the city. Miss Emma
| Geele received the highest number OF
votes and Jimmie Berry took first prize
among the men.
THE Coal Docks at this place viii be
built on a larger scale than was originally
intended. The company has taken three
more lots from the railroad company and
now has seven, all in the fat. This gives
accommodations for a very large business
and this is what the company purposes
doing.
Lucas, the man who has been confined
in Jail for theft. made a very neat attempt
at escape from the Jail on Monday night.
He had cut a hole through the ceiling
leading into a room on the floor above
his cell, from which he could easily es-
cape. His operations were discovered
before he could avail himself Of them in
gaining his liberty.
TIE sheriff seized James Hemptons
stock on Saturday. Some little legal
iu-fighting took place but the sheriff re-
manned in possession. An inventory OF
stock was taken on Monday. Mr.. Hemp
ton then made a settlement whereby the
store was open on Tuesday with himself
in charge as usual
THE council is resolved to put the har-
Dor in good shape. 1t is decided to
dredge the river from Fifth street to the
railroad docks SO as to secure a channel
sixteen feet deep. Bids Will be opened
on Monday next. Dock owners have
been ordered to repair their docks and
other moves looking toward improve
ment are in contemplation.
BUTCHER TmGER. who is now Cato
farmer. came to the city this week and
proceeded to get on a glorious spree. He
fought the officers who arrested him and
pledged himself to do some killing after
getting out of the scrape. He got ter
days in the county jail and the question
which now troubles him most is, who vii
do his spring planting.
READERS OF The Pilot are not to infer
that the Office does anything in the pho
tograph line from the charming picture
which appears in this issue. The picture
is not designed to advertise the lady but
the hat,-the big hat with a circus-tent
area and steeple altitude,--the hat which
makes men feel so amiable at theaters.
TIE tubular, yeneered curtain-pole is
an entirely new article just out on the
market for the first time. The poles are
hollow, therefore very light, and the great
advantage claimed for them over all Others
Is that they do not warp and bend, which
seems to be true. These poles are from
four to eight feet in length and come il
birds-eye maple, mahogany, rosewood anC
cherry. ScHUETTE Bios.
An old Bohemian from Kossuth named
Fuerst is in the habit of wandering away
, from home, being somewhat weaklninded
On Friday last he strolled into Mauitowot
and reached the court house about din
ner time. The sheriff gave him some fooG
and little later found the old man sit
ting upright and as rigid as If in death
A physician was sent for and after littl,
shaking the old man concluded to take /
new lease of life.
THE old soldier who was lately allowe,
a back pension of S12.5G0 and SD ne
month, escaped from the Brown count,
asylum when he heard Of his good Iuck